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Referencing Software Heritage

If you use any of the datasets indexed on this website for research purposes, please acknowledge Software Heritage as recommended in the publications page, that is:

1. Add a footnote on the title page of your paper, formatted as: “This work was made possible by Software Heritage, the universal source code archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org”; and
2. cite at least one of the following papers:
   • Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli. Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code. iPRES 2017. (BibTeX)
   • Jean-François Abramatic, Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli. Building the universal archive of source code. Commun. ACM 61(10): 29-31 (2018). (BibTeX)

Specific datasets might recommend additional citations, to credit their creators.

3 datasets

• Aggregated Contents #

  Dataset size

  Unknown

  Export date

  2025-05-18

  Derived of

  Compressed graph [2025-05-18]

  S3 URL

  s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2025-05-18/contents/

  Download

  For Amazon S3 links, you'll need to install either awscli or swh.datasets.

  aws s3 cp --recursive --no-sign-request s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2025-05-18/contents/ 2025-05-18-contents

• Aggregated Contents #

  Dataset size

  Unknown

  Export date

  2024-12-06

  Derived of

  Compressed graph [2024-12-06]

  S3 URL

  s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2024-12-06/contents/

  Download

  For Amazon S3 links, you'll need to install either awscli or swh.datasets.

  aws s3 cp --recursive --no-sign-request s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2024-12-06/contents/ 2024-12-06-contents

• Popular Contents #

  Comments

  A deprecated dataset listing the most popular name of each content. Replaced by the Aggregated Contents Dataset

  Dataset size

  Unknown

  Export date

  2022-04-25

  Derived of

  Compressed graph [2022-04-25]

  S3 URL

  s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2022-04-25/popular_contents/

  Download

  For Amazon S3 links, you'll need to install either awscli or swh.datasets.

  aws s3 cp --recursive --no-sign-request s3://softwareheritage/derived_datasets/2022-04-25/popular_contents/ 2022-04-25-popular_contents

  deprecated

By accessing the datasets, you agree with the Software Heritage Ethical Charter for using the archive data, the terms of use for bulk access, and the Software Heritage principles for large language models.

To learn how to use the datasets read the documentation.